October 2009
23 posts
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Supernatural Collective Nouns →
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Tiger's Nest Monastery →
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"Hey Jude" Flowchart →
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Flags by Colours displays a pie chart for each country’s flag showing how much of each color the flag uses.
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LongBox Digital Comics Store Adds to Apple Tablet...
Andy Ihnatko has been hearing rumors that Apple is courting comic book publishers for its rumored tablet media thing. I hope it’s true, and I hope that they don’t try anything fancy with it. I’ve seen approaches to digital comics that break things out panel-by-panel and try to squeeze comics into the screen. With a nice handheld device, just give me the whole page and let me zoom...
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“There was a typewriter repairman in North Hollywood, California. He...”
– Scott Buckwald, Prop Master for Mad Men
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Apple Answers: What's the Difference Between a... →
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How Unvaccinated Children Put Cancer Patients at...
Stephanie Tatel, writing for Slate, on how unvaccinated children put her son, who has leukemia, at risk. Chemotherapy diminishes ones’s immune system, so she can’t send her child to daycare because of what unvaccinated children could pass on.
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Pixar Intro Parody →
Did not see that coming. Poor Luxo, Jr.
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Meet The SlouchBack!
Constraints being ideal fuel for design, college students are the most innovative home decorators one can find. To add to the fire, the SlouchBack.
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Mad About Mad Men
“What’s wrong—and what’s gloriously right—with AMC’s hit show”—The Atlantic
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Audio Analysis of the Beatles Multitrack Masters →
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“Brooks Brothers said that the hand-finished, American-made suit is made from...”
– New York Times’s Arts Beat
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The Most Famous Unkindness
Ainsley Drew, writing for kottke.org, dishes some dirt about an unkindness of ravens that the Tower of London keeps in residence. Love their names.
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How TV Networks Need to Change
Conan O’Brien mentioned the rumor on The Tonight Show that Comcast may buy NBC. I have no clue how true this may be, but I can’t imagine a Comcast-owned TV network advancing the state of the art. TV is moving online. It’s inevitable. What we need is a network that can lead others online, not sit back and try to calculate how little it can offer on its website while bittorrent...
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The new trade dress for Invincible Iron Man is a delectable 60s modern look.
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Alice Rawsthorn writes about the Arne Jacobsen flatware Stanley Kubrick used for his astronauts in 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s available from the MoMA store.
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Update on Grant Morrison’s Joe the Barbarian
“Playtown burns from Teddy Bear Alley to Starbase Heights. And the drains are choked with guts and stuffing.”
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Logos in Legotown →
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How to Hide the Dropbox Menu Bar Icon →
I dislike cluttering up my menu bar with applications. I don’t really see the point when the Dock is already providing enough of its own clutter. Tweetie and Twitterrific both kindly offer options to disable their menu bar icons. This tip shows you how to replace Dropbox’s menu icon with a few transparent ones.
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Mad Men on Sesame Street →
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Great Garfield Minus Garfield Today →
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Trailer for Star Wars: Uncut. See also the project’s homepage.